John,
Nice level! Is that baby as accurate as a 12 inch starrett 98?..How much to buy one with your bulk discount...LOL.
As you know from our phone conversations, I use glue (and staples) to apply bed cloths. I've never had to re stretch one. If your looking to conserve cloth, by gluing the slate edge you get 2 extra rail cuts from the width. I use these extra cuts for recovering bar table rails etc.
The issue here is two fold. One, the attachment system. Two, the stretching pattern or system. In order to finish your side pockets (with Simonis) without having your relief cuts show you have to provide some slack in the cloth. Since the side pockets have the sharpest radius, it only logical to start you recovery process in the area where you need the most slack, IE the side pocket. JMO.
Leaving Wednesday, the tables cleared customs yesterday see you on the way back from DC.
Jay
Well to satisfy the inside area of a pocket lip versus the top of the table is not a concern of mine and has never been. If you want it to look nicer you can do things to it but why cause damage to the table by adding extra staples etc To me less is more. Now this is the reason I want to see some data. Glue holds better on a uniform basis but I solved that( I think) also with MY tac system. Ok it doesn't apply to all tables, so what.
Now lets to talk about the strain on the cloth that is developed when you stretch it so much to make pockets look so nice. My bet is that it does stretch excessively as you need to water it etc and therefore causes early fatigue along the rail in particular near the side pockets. Anyone has a table like this with some play on it? roll a ball slowly down the rail and watch it dive into the side. Since the cloth is thinner in that area it will wear faster from play. So my argument if you will is that the tightest cloth is put on billiard tables right? These carom tables demand it, its OK for those tables but not pool? Why? Because about how it looks on the inside of a pocket? This is why I don't care about stretching it like that. So I think my logic and evidence which I hope to gather will prove this out. Wrong maybe but let's see, that’s all I am asking.
Why can't there be a small study of this. Am going to do my table again. Also going to get a marker that will erase so I can mark it before I take off my cloth on there now. So, what I am trying to do is verify, that’s it. What ever is the best way . Perhaps if I can find the right marker it would be best to mark out the cloth on top first as SOP ( OTLB Factor #413)> And finally, who can put on cloth the tightest. Mine doesn't come loose, yours doesn't and probably not alot of guys. So, there is a min stretch (OTLB factor). Who puts it on the tightest may just be causing more of a problem than anything else, especially when you look at the side its drawn to over time. I think I have made enough points for now don't you think.
With my system I don't even have to use my hands, to pull the cloth. Yeah, I don't like my knuckles hurting either Scruffy. This will be the topic of another thread I hope, but not yet.
Oh yeah, this level is sick, its around $300, maybe you can get one on ebay for cheap..
Better then a Starrett for obvious reasons. I have a pic of it on another Brand of table but I don’t think I will post it. The other level also has a laser, hmmmmmmmmmm.
Even my phone has a level
Just got another nice level on Ebay last night at 18” .0003.
Why, I don’t know yet.
The next two weeks I am going to Phil.
The plate that the levels are resting on are custom and are machine ground both sides to >.001
they don't work for all tables
